Project Manager, Research & Development
Company: Albert B Sabin Vaccine Institute Inc
Location: Washington, DC 20006 (Remote)
Salary: $95,000 - $125,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-04-08
About this role
Description:
Reports to: Director, Project Management, Research & Development
Location: Remote Work, US Only
Why Sabin:
Our mission is to make vaccines more accessible, enable innovation, and expand immunization across the globe. We seek a future free from vaccine-preventable diseases. We are an innovative, collaborative, and engaged team that values accountability, teamwork, partnership, and driving impact. We are vaccine champions improving lives through immunization. Sabin staff, management, and the Board of Trustees are committed to ensuring that fairness, integrity, and opportunity remain at the core of how we operate.
Position Summary:
As a Project Manager within Research & Development (R&D) supporting vaccine product development, you will lead cross-functional teams in the initiation, planning, and execution of activities essential to advancing candidates through development and licensure, particularly under the FDA Animal Rule (21 CFR 601.90). You will serve as a key link between nonclinical and clinical efforts and the overall development program, ensuring delivery of high-quality data aligned with program timelines, budgets, and milestones. You will also ensure studies are appropriately sequenced and executed to support key milestones, decision points, and regulatory interactions.
The Project Manager will drive alignment across internal teams and external partners, including CROs, collaborators, and government stakeholders, ensuring clear expectations, effective communication, and on-time, on-budget delivery of activities.
The incumbent will have first-hand experience in vaccine/biologics product development, including planning and execution of development strategies and integration with regulatory pathways. Advanced knowledge of project management principles, including scope, schedule, cost, resource, quality, and risk management, is required, along with a strong understanding of R&D operations supporting complex biologics developm...